As with interior design for houses, interior design for vehicles is also subject to fashion trends. And like any fashion trend, even the best ideas can become stale and played out with overuse. Some ideas weren’t the best, either, like demonstrably worse human-machine interfaces that add to driver distraction; yet, they still proliferated throughout the industry and across the cars offered for sale.
But the good news is that the pushback seems to be working. We can put it all in the software. It’ll save us tooling up all these extra parts for unique cars and all this stuff and make the interior more like a software experience.’ And it was done with those intentions,” said Hiren Patel, senior design manager at Nissan.
That resulted in cars with minimalist interiors that looked good in the dealership. But people drive their cars on roads; they don’t just sit inside them, parked inside a dealership. In part, blame the increasing complexity of modern cars, which have multiple subsystems that need to be controlled.
So maybe nobody’s really figured out a great way of doing it.”
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